Tag Archive | "font"

The Lost Type Co-op

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

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The Lost Type Co-op

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: This is NOT simply another type foundry Hello dear readers. Today, I want to talk about the Lost Type Co-op. If you want to be cynical about it, you could say it’s just another type foundry. Well, you’d be wrong. The cool thing about the LTC is its model: [...]

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Fave Font: Knockout

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

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Fave Font: Knockout

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: We all have our favorite bunch of typefaces we use on a regular basis. When I first started out I was a font-a-holic downloading every free font that I could get my hands on. Over time, perhaps I’ve become less adventurous, but I’ve limited my pool to just a [...]

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Adobe Font Finder

Thursday, February 25, 2010

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Adobe Font Finder

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Fonts. What designer doesn’t have too many? And we are always on the hunt for more. The internet is a goldmine for fonts, but it’s not always easy to find just the font you’re looking for. It’s always good to have another font tool in your arsenal, and with [...]

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Font Sleuth: Find Fonts Fast

Monday, November 2, 2009

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Font Sleuth: Find Fonts Fast

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Font Sleuth is an interesting new font browser application for Mac OS X. The first thing I noticed about this app—pretty darn fast. No font manager I have ever used is lightning fast when it comes to previewing fonts. Font Sleuth however was close. Give it a few seconds [...]

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How to Design a Font: {Part 4} Finishing Touches

Friday, December 5, 2008

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How to Design a Font: {Part 4} Finishing Touches

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Well this is it – the final part in my series “How to Design a Font”! Be sure to catch up with the previous articles in the series: Part 1: Get inspired Part 2: Draw up a Storm! and Part 3: Make it Digital Great now we’re finally into [...]

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How to Design a Font: {Part 3} Make it Digital!

Monday, November 17, 2008

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How to Design a Font: {Part 3} Make it Digital!

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: The Grid Now that you have your font pretty well figured out it’s time to get into the computer. First things first, setting up Illustrator. I like to first turn on the grid. This is the easiest way to transfer your font from the grid paper to the computer. [...]

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How To Design a Font: {Part2} Draw Up A Storm!

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

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How To Design a Font: {Part2} Draw Up A Storm!

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Terminology Before we get into the meat of this tutorial I want to give you a crash course in font terminology. I know it’s not exactly the most exciting thing but I seriously think it’s good for you to know this before we get too far. Sans serif: A [...]

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How to Design A Font: {Part 1} Get Inspired!

Thursday, October 16, 2008

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How to Design A Font: {Part 1} Get Inspired!

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: I haven’t written a blog post in a while so I thought it was time I jumped right in and did a tutorial series about fonts. There will be three more tutorials that will follow this one. Their forces combined will account for pretty much everything I know of [...]

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